Sick leave refers to absences of faculty, academic staff and limited appointees of the University of Wisconsin System due to personal illness, injury, disability or pregnancy as well as attendance on a member of the immediate family of the employee whose condition or death requires the employee's direct care, if such absences are being charged against the employee's accumulated sick leave credits.
Wis. Admin. Code Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System UWS 19.01